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Patient wear

Patients in the Enterprise sickbay

Patient cat

Dr. Crusher's "littlest patient"

A patient was a lifeform that required medical and/or psychological treatment.

Patients in sickbay on the USS Enterprise had access to library tapes, including technical manuals for the ship. (TOS: "Space Seed")

Doctor Beverly Crusher once described Data's pet cat Spot as her smallest patient. (TNG: "Genesis")

Dr. Katherine Pulaski described Captain Jean-Luc Picard's plan to destroy the USS Enterprise-D to defeat Nagilum as "curing the disease by killing the patient." (TNG: "Where Silence Has Lease")

When Commander William T. Riker told Counselor Deanna Troi stories as he was undergoing treatment for a Surata IV microbe infection, she told him he was "a very entertaining patient." (TNG: "Shades of Gray")

When Dr. Crusher claimed she was experiencing déjà vu while treating Geordi La Forge for dizziness, he told her she must be thinking of another patient. (TNG: "Cause and Effect") Later, Worf made a similar claim when she remembered already treating him for a concussion. (TNG: "Parallels")

Without consent of a close relative, a doctor could not perform surgery on a patient against their will. Dr. Julian Bashir told this to Jake Sisko, who gave the doctor permission to operate on his father. (DS9: "Rapture")

Bashir gave Quark a case of Alvanian brandy, saying a patient had given it to him as payment but he couldn't accept it. (DS9: "Body Parts")

He later used leaving an imaginary patient on operating table as an excuse to leave Miles O'Brien and his wife alone. (DS9: "The Assignment")

While experiencing a simulated case of the Levodian flu, The Doctor told Kes not to offer his holographic tissue paper to patients. (VOY: "Tattoo")

One aim of The Doctor's personality improvement project was to have "more patience with my patients." (VOY: "Darkling")

Treatment of patients

According to doctors

In Doctor Mark Piper's experience, the healthiest of patients were "generally off on some reading," unlike Gary Mitchell after going through the galactic barrier. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before")

In Dr. Leonard McCoy's opinion, advanced medical technology alone was ineffective in determining a patient's overall health. He preferred to observe firsthand markers, such as "a healthy set of tonsils." (TOS: "The Man Trap") Given the choice between primitive medical procedures and 23rd century techniques when a life was at stake, however, he preferred to opt for the less invasive methods. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

McCoy took Joe Tormolen's death hard, saying that he'd never lost a patient like him before, a man who ordinarily wouldn't give up. (TOS: "The Naked Time")

According to Dr. Crusher, "The first tenet of good medicine is never make the patient any worse." (TNG: "Ethics")

When Garak told Julian Bashir that he needed to know who he really was, the doctor replied by saying, "I'm a doctor. You're my patient. That's all I need to know." (DS9: "The Wire")

Cautioning Seven of Nine, The Doctor told her that patients who tried to self-diagnose always assumed the worst. (VOY: "Relativity")

According to patients

Q criticized Beverly Crusher's bedside manner, saying that her patients probably recovered quickly just to get away from her. (TNG: "Deja Q")

According to Rachel Garrett, doctors always overprotected their patients. (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise")

When faced with the possibility of losing her empathic abilities forever, Deanna Troi once described how she'd seen many patients treated differently by their friends and colleagues as a result. (TNG: "The Loss")

Jadzia Dax was nervous about going back to the Symbiosis Commission as a patient, saying it was worse than being an initiate. (DS9: "Equilibrium")

According to machines

One of several efficiency measures taken by the M-5 multitronic unit was the shutting down of all systems in sickbay until there were patients to treat. (TOS: "The Ultimate Computer")

The Jye Allocator dictated medical care based on a patient's usefulness rather than need. (VOY: "Critical Care")

According to others

When Bashir managed to save the life of Vedek Bareil against all odds, Benjamin Sisko chided him for his modesty, saying, "It's not every doctor that can lose a patient and then has him back on his feet in a few weeks." (DS9: "Life Support")

While The Doctor was malfunctioning, B'Elanna Torres once remarked to him, "A doctor who operates on himself has a petaQ for a patient." (VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy")

First patients

Doctor Antaak's first patient was his pet targ Boshar. (ENT: "Affliction")

Julian Bashir told Ekoria his first patient was his teddy bear Kukalaka. In response to Ekoria asking him why he kept persisting in sewing up the ragged object, Bashir replied that he "wouldn't be much of a doctor if I gave up on a patient, would I?" (DS9: "The Quickening")

Particularly difficult patients

Spock once described McCoy as "the worst patient in the entire crew of the Enterprise.". (TOS: "All Our Yesterdays")

Jonathan Archer had heard that doctors make the worst patients. (ENT: "Regeneration") Beverly Crusher believed therapists were second only to doctors as far as being bad patients. (TNG: "The Loss")

Crusher also described Worf to Dr. Toby Russell as a difficult patient. (TNG: "Ethics")

The Doctor believed that Vulcans made the worst patients. (VOY: "Cold Fire") Additionally, he sarcastically responded to a skeptical Lewis Zimmerman, "I also have an exceptionally high tolerance for difficult patients." (VOY: "Life Line") When he expressed a lack of surprise at finding sickbay "fugitive" Seven of Nine with B'Elanna Torres in USS Voyager's engineering, Torres remarked, "We difficult patients need to stick together." (VOY: "Imperfection")

Gallery of patient garb

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